Good Naked (New York NY) & Rhett Baruch (Los Angeles CA) present:

TERRESTRIAL APERTURE / A 4-person exhibition of works by

Liz Ainslie

Marcus Bernardes

J. Bradley Greer

Emily Pfaff

OPEN by appointment / info@goodnakedgallery.com

In collaboration with Rhett Baruch // 6057 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles CA 90038

Good Naked (New York NY) and Rhett Baruch (Los Angeles CA) are pleased to present TERRESTRIAL APERTURE, a four person exhibition opening Saturday, February 24th from 4-7pm. The works on display celebrate visual pleasure and curiosity. Each artist culls imagery from a combination of close looking and reverie as they explore formal and material play. In a moment of attention economy, these artists ask us to slow looking and delve deeper into a world of whimsical structures and tended surfaces. Liz Ainslie’s paintings are built from found speech and interrupted horizons. She prepares forms through a translation of momentary perceptions, siting natural light and architecture as a set of rules to be accepted and recalibrated. Marcus Bernardes’ sedimentary rock formations are born out of studied experimentation with Argillite rock and its multitudinous properties. Combining fragments to celebrate natural colors and patterns, Bernardes calls attention to this material’s mineral wonders. J. Bradley Greer pulls shapes from the human body - pointing to the psychology of forms and colors as he winks at the overlapping qualities of the botanical, anatomical, and decorative. Emily Pfaff’s paintings hint at the sublime as she conjures memory and the spiritual in her dream-like fables. Figures move ephemerally through fields of light and color as they explore imagined territories with care and awe. Expressive paint makes up the bulk of her surface preparation as she works responsively toward world building and euphoria.

/

TERRESTRIAL APERTURE  will be on view February 24 - March 31, 2024.

For more information and to make an appointment, please email info@goodnakedgallery.com.